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Group of U.S. Truckers Contesting Cross-Border Trucking Program in Supreme Court

The
Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) has asked the U.S.
Supreme Court to review a recent Washington D.C. Circuit Court ruling allowing
Department of Transportation's cross-border trucking pilot program to continue.
The program, which went into effect in 2011 as part of the North American Free
Trade Agreement (NAFTA), treats a Mexican

commercial trucking license as the
equivalent to a commercial trucking license issued in a U.S. state, thus
allowing Mexican trucking companies to run their operations into the U.S. The
program requires all Mexican operators to follow the same rules as operators in
the U.S. According
to Bloomberg, safety advocates say that
regulators have allowed at least one Mexican trucking company to continue
operating in spite of a lowered safety rating. GCC Transporte de CV, the
Mexican company that has crossed the border most often, was stopped for safety
violations 18 times in one year, and were still allowed to operate. Currently,
there are 13 Mexican companies operating in the cross-border program.

OOIDA
maintains that the program is contrary to a statute, which says that truck
drivers must carry a valid U.S. commercial trucking license. When the border
opened with NAFTA, both OOIDA and the International Brotherhood of Teamsters
filed separate challenges to the program. A Washington D.C. Circuit Court found
against both challenges. In response, OOIDA filed a petition for writ of
certiorari on October 24, contesting the ruling. Now OOIDA has taken their
cause all the way to the Supreme Court, urging it to take up their challenge of
the pilot program (The Teamsters were not part of the recent OOIDA
filing). Trucking Info reports that OOIDA is asking for a
response to their filing by the end of November.

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